Brilliant!
@i8dc @cschweitz sports reporters know infinitely more about the fundamentals than political rs. Imagine bball covered by football reporters
— J. Bradford DeLong (@delong) August 16, 2012
@delong @i8dc @cschweitz sports reporters not required to get "balancing quote" after observing pitcher gave up ten runs
— Brett Arends (@BrettArends) August 16, 2012
Grill away.
Ryan hops aboard the Mitt Romney both-sides-of-every-issue train.
A good day.
Sports reporters who have actually played a sport are generally respected for that. Political reporters who have worked on a campaign or for a public officeholder have to work hard to overcome the stigma.
Also, the norms in most large “mainstream media”: it’s okay for anyone in the newsroom except the sports team’s beat reporter to wear a team cap or have a team bumper sticker. It’s not okay for anyone, no matter how little connection to political coverage they have, to contribute the price of a baseball cap to a political party or have a candidate’s bumper sticker.
Good point.
So, I am home, yet my luggage is not. Including my comuter.
SLF is home, so is her luggage.
Suspicious last name = TSA quagmire?
i have had less problems since about 2003. before 9/11 I made sure to shave before I flew. in 2002 I was regularly randomly taken out of line. A worker said it was because of the way my ticket was bought. when I told him that makes it not random, he stopped talking to me.
You know, I don’t have any of the ethnic characteristics that would make me profiled, but from 2001-2005 or so I noticed that I always seemed to get pulled for extra screening when I hadn’t shaved. It was too small a sample to know whether it was coincidence, but I fell into the habit of always shaving before a trip and the extra attention stopped.
Funny. The few times I’ve not shaved, I’ve rarely been pulled out. I guess I just have one of those innocent faces.
Fron ’01 to ’09, I was randomly selected literally every single time I flew, which was probably around 18-20 round trips.
from 2001 until 2005, i was always pulled out for the “random search.” this was when my hair was still blonde and i looked respectable. ;) i always carried a black llbean courier bag then. as soon as i stopped bringing that bag, i stopped getting searched.
So LL Bean has ties to terrorism… good to know!
i mean, i’m not even sure it was the bag, but that was the only variable that has changed. i’ve asked several TSA people about it over the years, but they’ve all told me that they aren’t allowed to say.
So El Al Bean and their terrorist activity are top secret?
so was I. including one time when they obviously forgot to mark something on my boarding pass after the search which led to the following interaction at the boarding gate:
– Excuse me, Sir, how did you enter the airport?
– Mmm, through the door?
– Sir, you had been selected for a random screening, but for some reason the officers neglected to do so
– What? I was screened just 20 minutes ago
– Sir, I will need you to step aside
{stops the boarding, walks back to the counter, and speaks into the public announcements system}
– We have a security issue at gate 43, I repeat, we have a security issue at gate 43
So the authorities came over to the boarding gate with a screen and searched me again right there, which caused 20 minutes take-off delay and numerous friendly smiles when I finally boarded
so, luggage is back. Most unofficial delivery person ever.
Found Bags, Inc.?
a friend is a special agent. For about a year before he was hired, about 2/3s of all the packages mailed to him cam with a note “Item fell open at the post office and was resealed.”
what i want to ask sports reporters is, why they don[t spend time understanding the advances in analysis since obviously the front offices they cover do.
Is it too much to ask that SuSlu not cite CERA?
You mispelled it.
Awesome.
Thanks, and go As.
Hahahahaha!
perfect!
Get into position to make a call at the plate? That’s a boot to the head.
I still want to know whether he was safe or out.
Yes.
This is an artist’s brain on drugs
Computer duster?? Good lord.
government warning: cocaine will make you see jet skis!
Pruno!
I know this reveals that I’m a total square, but I have no idea what most of that stuff is on the list.
intersection of sports and really decent filmmaking. 30 for 30 on instant has been veddy veddy good to me. some of these documentaries take a great angle and explore connections between sport and political culture (the two escobars, fernando mania) or go deeper into stuff you really do want to find out every nasty detail about (catching hell, without bias). but last night i was up way past my bedtime because i started june 17, 1994 a little late and couldn’t put it down. absolutely brilliant film, a note-perfect symphony (though the music they put over it, not so perfect, and i wish there was a musicless dry version available), all original footage, no external narration, some convenient editing, it does so much to connect sports, emotions, murder and how it’s all approached by the media/our society. it’s the kind of film that makes me want to buy a projector and wallpaper my livingroom with it on permanent loop.
Por favor some splaining: What is 30 for 30? On instant? What happened 6/17/94?
netflix instant has available some episodes of an espn series called 30 for 30. june 17, 1994 is the name of one of them, in which they detail sports news from the day as shown on TV live that day, including arnold palmer’s last masters, jr’s 30th HR of the season, a game of the NBA finals, the opener of the soccer world cup held in the US, and, oh yeah, that’s right, nearly forgot, OJ’s low-speed getaway on the white bronco.
Nice, thanks.
we had a party that day. I lived on Barrington in LA, about two miles from OJ’s Brentwood place.
I was calling friends in OC to give them directions when the helicopter armada flew above. I told whatever friend on the phone to just follow the choppers.
i missed it completely. i was in argentina for a few months and they didn’t give a fig. i heard about kobain’s death on spanish MTV that same trip though.
I heard about it from some hippy in line at the santa monica Salvation army.
SHe told us she thought it was so sad about Kurt. Not really caring about Nirvana since about 1991, I wondered how she knew my friend Kurt, and how she knew I knew Kurt, and what happened to my friend Kurt that was so sad.
KXLU informed us on the ride home, and we all laughed because none of us figured it out.
i was pretty shocked. but the interviews of the kids putting flowers lighting candles did have comic value.
it was worse seeing the flowers by the viper room after river phoenix died. At least Cobain has a disease that killed him, not some stupid holloween “hey lets do a bunch of drugs!!”
Celiac disease is a bitch.
now that, i’ve heard courtney called.
huh. i’d never heard courtney called that. i don’t disagree though.
priorto his death, Mary Lou Lord, Kurts pre Courtney girlfriend stayed with us.
She had no nice things to say upon seeing a hole 7″ in somebody’s pile of records
Mary Lou Lord was one of the local street musicians when I was a college student Back East.
I remember seeing her on Conan O’Brien in 1993 or 4.
!!!!
I think if you ask professional journalists about the above take on sports reporters, you’d get a very different answer. I once asked my sister-in-law, a former senior editor of the Denver Post, about Woody Paige, and she just laughed and laughed before saying she had no comment.
where’s KK from? for some reason (it’s a weak reason, because i fancy that he likes the indians from his apparent love for saying “the tribe”) i thought he was from ohius or about. but the other day, commenting on the high sky at the coliseum, he mentioned that he used to come to see the A’s before he became a broadcaster, made it sound as if he was a regular even. is he from around here?
A native of Los Angeles, Korach attended San Diego State and UC Santa Barbara, where he graduated with a degree in social sciences in 1975.
funny. i googled KK and passed on that one page because i figured the organization wouldn’t say anything useful!
thanks.
come to think of it, he does apparently like to say gaucho too.
verdugo hills, what an unpleasant name.
So where did he get the pronunciation of “Mun-treal,” I wonder?
I think that’s actually authentic.
what’s the regionalism for mun-treal?
Not sure I understand the question.
I believe that’s how anglophone canucks pronounce it.
ah.
You can believe andeux, he’s nearly Canadian.
Thats how its pronounced.
He has often mentioned seeing the Angels in their 1961 expansion year season at old Wrigley Field in L.A. If he graduated from UCSB in 1975 he must have been around 8 at the time.
Apparently after college he lived in the Bay Area and when he decided to become a baseball broadcaster he hung out in the Coliseum bleachers practicing by talking into his cassette recorder. Jon Miller did the same thing a few years earlier and Charlie O. and Monte Moore were impressed enough that they hired Miller without any professional broadcasting experience. (Doesn’t Miller also say Mun-treal? I sense some emulation.)
ah, there’s the oakland connection.
Lego Brooklyn
mancityball. and over at sbn soccer comments, it’s touching and cute to watch the stats can’t see certain things that scouts can argument peek at the world with newborn eyes again.
interesting
About to interview someone for a job. Just noticed he has a somewhat embarrassing, though fairly subtle, error on his resume. Resume has probably already been given to dozens of prospective employers, some of whom surely will have noticed it. Tell him?
yeah
Damn. I don’t want to destroy his confidence.
Tell him when it’s over.
This, if you tell him he should not mention his experience as an “anal-ist” and instead that as a “Analyst” it could throw him off…
he was the first ever Analrapist.
Do it at the beginning, be nice about it in a sort of “hey, we still called you in to interview” sort of way. And it’s easily part of your test to see how well he handles it.
Agreed. Plus, he’ll probably send it to more people later.
I slipped it into the conversation as non-threateningly as I could. Unfortunately, his response wasn’t “whoops, typo.” It was “I think what I wrote is right.” At least he’ll change it going forward, I hope.
Wow. sorry about not getting the job, bub. good luck with the resume
Yeah. And this wasn’t a misspelling or grammar error. This was a substantive oops. I hope someone overlooks it, because he’s otherwise a strong candidate.
So what was it?
he wanted to point out that he was a great AND cunning linguist
I wish I could say, but I can’t. Something like describing yourself as having done extensive study of the cultures and politics of South America, but confusing Uruguay with Paraguay. And the distinction between those two countries is highly relevant to the job you’re applying for.
Um, that’s bad. And getting defensive when a potential employer points that out is a dumb move.
Not so much defensive as…confused.
Good grief!
Oof.
If it’s not ‘Mare-cuh, it’s all the same. Right?
dammit. did i write “attention to derails” again?
I think that’s right.
if the job was engineer, sure.
last 2 days of wall posts on 95.7’s FB Timeline thingy:
20 minutes ago: Melky Cabrera
1 hour ago: Melky Cabrera
3 hours ago: Melky Cabrera
6 hours ago: Melky Cabrera
23 hours ago: King Felix Perfect Game
Yesterday: Melky Cabrera
Yesterday: Melky Cabrera
Yesterday: Melky Cabrera
Yesterday: Giants v. Strasburg
Thanks, and go As.
your choices as i see them:
a) unfriend/unlike/stop paying attention
b) orchestrate a commentbomb campaign where every time they post something not about the A’s you and a bunch of A’s fans write about the A’s with things that can’t be argued about, simple facts. not mean, not unfriendly, just facts that ignore what they’re talking about. “how do fans feel about old melk?” gets 50 comments anywhere from “in 2008 buck was put on the DL with shin splints” to “cespedes is sitting at .301”
b seems like a lot of work for you, but i’m in. on the other hand, i wouldn’t blame you if you go with a.
I find their lack of attention the whassamattawithtimmay issue troubling.
Every entry about Melky should be bombed with “But what about Timmeh” comments, and every entry about Timmeh should be bombed with “But what about Melky” comments.
that would be funny, but I am not going to connect my account to their page
yeah but… giants fans would never, ever get it.
What if you could communicate it through pictures of funny hats?
I like this with a combo of AV’s ‘b” above.
“Did you know former A’s slugger Frank Thomas has his own beer? But really…WHATS TEH MATTER WITH TIMMEH??!!11!?”
Swoon
Their last post exclusively about the A’s was on August 9.
Flagship station.
I’n happy to have them post about Melky all day, every day for the rest of the season. Besides, when they have a topic about the A’s there’s usually a factual error or a faulty assumption, or some of both.
95.7’s lack of strong flagshippery does really suck, no doubt. That said, though, they are by far the best lead station the A’s have had in a long time, both in breadth of coverage and strength of signal. By far.
i miss accidentally pushing the button at the wrong time of day and getting an earful of oldies.
I don’t miss turning on the car the morning after a night game and hearing “Thus……….saith…….the LORD.”
I don’t miss not being able to actually hear a night game.
I do.
The Sacramento affiliates are spotty at best.
Word.
…or the Michael Savage Show.
oh yeah, that was horrible. but i think i’m talking about a happier time before that era even.
it was no accident when I pushe that buton
So, I figure the lawsuit because they’re shaped like itoonz gift cards will be any time now…
Thanks, and go As.
Yay, my Two Distinct Options In Which To Invest In The A’s Journey To A Fifth World Series Title In Oakland arrived!
I wonder if that means I’ll get mine.
We have the option of buying a postseason parking pass for $223, but for whatever reason they’re only allowing those people to park in Lot C. That’s not our usual spot and I don’t like change!
$223 to park in the post season (assuming there is one)? That’s ridiculous.
For 11 games. So that’s $20.25 a game, not really a bad deal. Probably the best thing to do is to carpool from the FKers who live nearby.
That’s a ridiculous price for parking anywhere. I’d totally BART it over that. And that’s all assuming they get all 11 games, I’d hope they’d have a game-by-game refund.
if by refund you mean credit towards your next season tickets, sure
I am still wondering what happens if there is an A’s-Raiders conflict during the playoffs, I asked someone at the A’s and they said that they were not sure what happens. Yes, I know it is a crazy longshot, but there is one possible conflict on the postseason schedule, Game 7 of the ALCS is on Sunday October 21st, the same day that the Raiders host the Jaguars. Again, I understand how many things have to happen to get to the point where there is actually a conflict, one being that it would mean that the A’s were the top seed in order to host game 7 of the ALCS, another being that the A’s actually make it to the postseason and then advance to to the ALCS, just to name a few…
The only thing I know in that case is that the A’s have priority. Not sure where the Raiders would wind up playing in that scenario though.
Candlestick?
Monday night?
That would be my guess; the NFL has moved games to Mondays on late notice for various reasons over the years.
Only problem with that is changing from baseball configuration at what would presumably be a 5 PM Sunday game in time for football configuration the next night. The change back wouldn’t have to be quite so fast, since the NL won the All-Star Game, the first game in Oakland
wouldwill be Game 3 on Saturday.Speaking of ridiculous, I looked into tickets at Kauffman to see the A’s this series. I used to sit in sections 125 or 126 for around $30-40. That will put you right behind the visitor’s dugout. Now section 125 is about $50-55 and 126 is $85-90! I was pissed.
Parking is another thing! Parking to see a Royals game is $8. To get in the EXACT same gate for a Chiefs game is $20.
Well, 81 baseball games vs. 8 football games still breaks down as a hell of a lot cheaper in the end for football.
Parking at an A’s game is $17 (non season ticket holder) and for the Raiders it is $35…
Third Option: Pagan/timestream magick/manipulation.
or options 3-6, however you wanna slice it.
I would like to put in my bid for option 3.
Right on. I’ll forward your call to the appropriate department.
Woohoo!
Fosse/Frenchy interview coming up on THE GAME. This should be fun.
Grant is one outrageous dude. He’s totally in my face! *guitar solo*
we need more of this.
i just discovered his blog today.
Yuck. A fan in Toronto went into cardiac arrest at the game and later died at the hospital.
Whoa, plate of creepy shrimp, dude, because I was just coming here to post a link to this. Which, if you can get past the deranged idea of building your death ritual around your favorite sports team, is kind of sweet.
One day I hope I love something as much as the people in that video loved their teams.
Aw, I don’t think it’s all that deranged (okay, the Steelers guy… a little deranged). Not something I would do, but hey.
Also… had no idea they don’t bury people with shoes on.
you mean stillers?
the aggie field one, with its spirit gate, gets my vote for creepy.
colombia, 16-yr-old kid gets gunned down during a confrontation between fans of opposing teams. next weekend, his fellow fans…
Man, I remember that story! Didn’t his fellow fans have to hijack the funeral and overrun police at the stadium to get him in?
OK, found a couple old articles to refresh the memory. he was 17 and he was playing a neighborhood soccer game in the park when he was gunned down by a couple of hit men. the friends went to the family’s home drunk and took the coffin with the family’s permission. they brought it into the stadium 15 minutes before the end of the game, and it wasn’t that they overran police, but that after it happened, the police launched an investigation to find out who their weak link was because it seemed someone had looked the other way. police said, “they scored two goals on us. one because they brought it in, but 2 because these fans were on the no-entry list in the first place.”
The story that won’t die at least has an amusing part:
Ben Hur?
The others wanted to throw Mirkarimi to the lions.
Well played.
At the intersection of sports and politics
Nice.
If you only read one brutal evisceration of a sanctimonious sports writer today, make it this one.
Craggs never disappoints.
The comments are a little unexpected.
You gotta wonder about someone that is so oblivious to the message, right?
Well, he’s calling Obama out for being divisive, never mind that it’s his own party that’s intentionally been anti-anything Obama proposes as a party policy and that he, himself, is an active member of it.
That’s “Big Lie” politics 101. Do something while, at the same time, accusing the other side of doing precisely that. Works OK if both sides are doing it. Works great if only you are.
I always find Yahoo comments to be an interesting gauge of things. Usually they’re full of raging lunacy so when that group turns against you, you know you’ve shoved your foot in your mouth. There’s very little positive Obama-ness going on (which I’m not surprised), but what’s interesting is the realization that both these people suck ass and the choice is about which will be less bad.
The Emperor has no Clue.
I mean, Skrewdriver plays really good Oi! SUre they are the alpha white pride band, but the music is cool.
therefore jewdriver.
“Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan†is an anagram for “My ultimate Ayn Rand Porn.â€
We’re FKed.
Holy motherloving shit!
That’s a tagline too.
Yup.